MechaTarrasque
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There is a video on their thinking at https://www.sageadvice.eu/2018/05/21/unearthed-arcana-centaurs-and-minotaurs/.
They started out with centaurs (apparently a long-term goal), decided to make the PC version medium because of paladin auras (where is @LowKey when you need him), but they aren't like a special race of centaurs or anything.
My guess is that large centaurs are like "we are centaurs, we don't need no stinking classes", and medium centaurs are like "it is a hard knock life for medium centaurs, better get some class levels", which is why they can be PC's, because a PC without a class level is just an NPC. Or maybe all the bad things that happen to PC centaurs stunts their growth?
The MM minotaurs are large because of demons, but if the minotaur wasn't hanging around with bad companionship (and wasn't on Krynn), it would be a minotaur from the UA.
They started out with centaurs (apparently a long-term goal), decided to make the PC version medium because of paladin auras (where is @LowKey when you need him), but they aren't like a special race of centaurs or anything.
My guess is that large centaurs are like "we are centaurs, we don't need no stinking classes", and medium centaurs are like "it is a hard knock life for medium centaurs, better get some class levels", which is why they can be PC's, because a PC without a class level is just an NPC. Or maybe all the bad things that happen to PC centaurs stunts their growth?
The MM minotaurs are large because of demons, but if the minotaur wasn't hanging around with bad companionship (and wasn't on Krynn), it would be a minotaur from the UA.